I was horrified to see that the “Chatzum” malware sailed through Avast’s defences undetected and installed itself on my computer. Beware everyone - this is a helluva difficult bit of rogue software to remove.
Why hasn’t Avast devised some form of protection against this? It really is pernicious.
and as i understand Chatzum is not a infection…but some browser/toolbar crap…may be classed as PUP
Run AdwCleaner first… then do a quick scan with Malwarebytes, and click the "remove selected " button to quarantine anything found
(make sure Malwarebytes is updated before you run it)
Seriously this chatzum stuff is nasty, its not just a browser thing. It attempts to hack facebook and it is now like spaghetti all over the computer, all through registry. It needs stronger action. Also malwarebytes have also not detected it.